in question
adj1
Under consideration, under discussion.
- The man in question just walked in.
- The topic in question is not something that can be easily addressed due to its sensitivity.
3 more examples
- The police officer told me the suspect in question was last seen on Swanston St.
- When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- Because large language models are trained on so much text, they provide good estimates of surprisal of words in context. Hence, a surprisal measure usually includes all factors that might affect the acceptability of a sentence, from word frequency to the plausibility of the meaning, to the structural frequency of the material in question.2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Preliminaries: Components of Language Structure” (chapter 2), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 24:
2
In doubt, under dispute.
- The whole project is now in question.
- The evidence has been called in question.